Derby, UK -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/13/2023 -- Playground equipment is an ever-expanding market that is forecast to achieve significant growth over the next couple of years. Research has found that there was a negative impact on the market in the post-COVID era but there are also many factors that are having a positive influence on growth. For example, growing urbanisation globally is a big driver for market growth and this is not something that is likely to recede any time soon. Increasingly, populations are moving from rural habitation to urban or semi-urban areas - population growth and urbanisation are expected to add 2.5 billion people in urban and semi-urban areas by 2050. As a result, the demand for playground equipment, such as school playground equipment, continues to rise. And it's this that is driving the market to increase by $2.01 billion up to 2025.

Another key driver of the growth in the playground equipment market is the consumer preference for convenience. Playgrounds offer a great environment for children to be active and explore while parents do office or household work. In an educational environment, school playground equipment provides a space where children can enhance classroom learning, acquire social skills and also start to gain physical confidence. This is an incredibly competitive market and there are many different players looking to gain prominence both for school playground equipment and playground equipment in general.

Playtop is one of those companies that is heavily influenced by the growth in the market for playground equipment. The type of surfacing that is provided to support playground equipment is a vital part of the process of creating a resilient and engaging space. Without high quality surfacing, investment in school playground equipment etc is wasted. Poor surfacing can deteriorate quickly, be unsafe or simply not provide the level of performance or aesthetic appeal that is required. The vital nature of safety surfacing, especially for school playground equipment, is one of the reasons why Playtop has gone from strength to strength ever since the business first began in the 1970s.

The team at Playtop has more than 40 years experience in creating sustainable surfacing to support school playground equipment, as well as other playground equipment. Today, the company is the world's leading rubber safety surfacing provider and has been an innovative pioneer in the world of wet pour surfacing. This has resulted in a collaboration with the sports giant Nike, which has seen old sports shoes reused and recycled into sustainable surfacing that is now used in sports areas and MUGAs worldwide. Nike Grind is a tough and long-lasting solution that is highly durable and has helped Playtop to build on its mission for sustainability and a more environmentally friendly approach to playground surfacing. Sustainability is a key commitment for Playtop and has been since the business began. The company is the market leader in the industry and has worked tirelessly over the years to keep uncovering technological and sustainable solutions.

About Playtop
Playtop is a World leading supplier of sustainable, environmentally friendly, innovative and high-quality rubber surfaces for play and recreational spaces
Playtop operates in the UK and Denmark, with offices in Newark and Odense. Since 1977, Playtop has as a successful, World class and fully integrated state of the art tyre recycler, been transforming truck and bus tyres from an environmental landfill hazard into usable, sustainable and durable surfacing products, and has over five decades continued to revolutionise the industry. https://playtop.com/gallery

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Group Marketing Manager, Paolo Morena, comments, "Playtop is a team of dedicated, passionate and knowledgeable professionals, who through a global network of exclusive Playtop Licensees, are determined to Inspire Uniqueness around the world."
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Playtop is a World leading supplier of sustainable, environmentally friendly, innovative and high-quality rubber surfaces for play and recreational spaces

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Derby, UK -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/28/2022 -- Sustainability is a vital objective for businesses today. A range of new technologies and innovative processes have meant that the most effective safety surfacing options can now be much greener too. Playtop has been committed to being the safety surfacing industry's green leader, innovating and continually evolving so as to create products that meet the dual requirements of high standards and performance, as well as robust eco credentials.

Recycled rubber is the key

Playtop now incorporates recycled rubber into a wide variety of its surfacing systems so as to help organisations meet sustainability goals. In fact, the business processes around 20,000 tonnes of REACH compliant end of life bus and truck tyres, converting this into a base layer that is an essential part of the safety surfacing that Playtop creates for playgrounds and recreational areas. All the tyres that are received by Playtop are 100% recycled and reused. Even the metal parts can have a new purpose - once they are separated from the rubber, the metal elements can be smelted down to create new cast iron products - including manhole covers - or repurposed as reinforcement materials in industrial concrete flooring.

And not just from tyres

Playtop is also working in partnership with Nike, incorporating ground up sports shoes into a number of different safety surfacing options provided by the company - this product is called Nike Grind. It is a fantastic way to repurpose Nike products and create a new dimension for Playtop. Nike shoes are blended with Playtop EPDM recycled rubber to produce a very durable surface that also has an attractive speckled aesthetic. The partnership with Nike benefits the sports giant and helps to keep Playtop innovative.

Working towards a zero-waste future

Collaboration and supporting other businesses is going to be vital to ensuring that everyone has access to sustainable safety surfacing solutions and that the industry can continue to evolve. The partnership with Nike is a prime example of the way in which Playtop is committed to being the safety surfacing industry's green leader - and to supporting other organisations across industries to help each meet their goals with respect to working towards a zero-waste future.

Spreading vital awareness

Evolution in sustainability is also about awareness and ensuring that people know there are options when it comes to safety surfacing, or any other type of product for that matter. There is always a way to find a more sustainable solution and Nike Grind is a great illustration of that. It also helps to spread awareness of the importance of recycling and waste reduction and show that there are innovative and productive ways to achieve this. Playtop believes in leading by example, both in terms of its own range of recycled products and the partnerships entered into with companies like Nike. It's also about giving customers options so that everyone can be an environmentalist if they choose to.

Playtop offers sustainable safety surfacing solutions that are leading from the front in the industry on a global level.

About Playtop
Playtop is a World leading supplier of sustainable, environmentally friendly, innovative and high-quality rubber surfaces for play and recreational spaces. For more than 40 years, Playtop has been transforming truck and bus tyres from an environmental landfill hazard into usable, sustainable and durable surfacing products.

Playtop is committed to being the surfacing industry's green leader. Through the development of new technologies and innovative processes, incorporate recycled rubber into our great variety of surfacing systems, removing these from the waste stream and prolonging their life cycle.

Playtop Licensing process almost 20,000 tonnes of REACH-compliant end-of-life bus and truck tyres. The clean rubber from this process is used as the base layer for Playtop's high-quality playground and recreational systems. Meanwhile, all steel is separated and given new life as reinforcement fibres in industrial concrete flooring or smelted to produce cast iron products such as road manhole covers.

All tyres processed in our plant are 100% recycled and reused.

Playtop reinforces its environmental commitment through our close partnership with Nike. Here, Playtop incorporates used and ground-up sports shoes and incorporates them in our great variety of surfaces – a flooring product that when blended with Playtop EPDM recycled rubber, will give our extremely durable surfaces an attractive and speckled look. We call this unique product, Playtop with Nike Grind.

Through Playtop with Nike Grind, we not only support Nike in their mission to give new life to waste material and to work towards a zero-waste future, but we also are determined to spread global awareness of the importance of recycling and waste reduction to both public administrators and educational entities. We believe that this is best done best by leading by example.

We join our global partner Nike in a vision of a zero-waste future, but in fact, the true environmentalists are all those customers around the world whom every day choose to use Playtop recycled rubber flooring products as their preferred surfacing solution.

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Playtop celebrates being different. In a complex and ever-changing world, we strive to be proactive, responsible and conscious-minded in our business. We thrive on the ability to inspire the world around us, just like it inspires us to truly make a difference.

As a global team, we bring safe, sustainable, innovative and durable play and leisure surfaces to every demographic across the world and we strive to always inspire and embrace uniqueness in both products and people.

For any media enquiries please contact Gary Elliott at Iconic Digital – 020 7100 0726.

For all other enquiries please contact Playtop at https://playtop.com/contact-us

For more information about Playtop services, please go to https://www.playtop.com

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Derby, UK -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/19/2022 -- Sustainability is a key priority for any business today - the more sustainable investments we make, the more protection we provide for our children in the future. There are so many ways to make an impact when it comes to sustainability, including with respect to supply chain choices and partnerships. Playtop is committed to being the surfacing industry's green leader, prioritising the issue of sustainability and providing options for organisations with surfacing needs to make the greenest possible choice.

Intelligent, innovative solutions

Recycled rubber is a simple but effective material when it comes to creating surfaces that are high quality and sustainable too. Playtop processes almost 20,000 tonnes of REACH-compliant end-of-life bus and truck tyres every year. Sports shoes also make an appearance in Playtop surfaces thanks to a well-established partnership with Nike. Ground-up used sports shoes can be used for a wide selection of different surfaces and create an attractive speckled look when combined with Playtop used rubber. This commitment to giving new life to waste material is key to the intelligent and innovative solutions that make Playtop one of the greenest partners around.

Supporting the future of children's play

There is no better way to support the future of children's play than to make the process of installing surfaces more sustainable. Moving towards a zero-waste future takes commitment and focus, not just in terms of process but finding new solutions to current challenges. Playtop surfacing is not just engineered from sustainable sources but is also designed to be incredibly flexible and effective. Products include wet pour rubber surfacing for multi-activity courts, highly porous surfacing options for walkways, fun and decorative porous rubber surfacing for splash parks and interactive rubber surfacing for play parks. There are also lots of opportunities to bring children's play to life with Playtop surfacing. For example, 3D animals and 2D graphics provide many more ways to facilitate climbing and engagement with surfaces while Playtop spheres create options for a new dimension to play.

1977 onwards

Playtop is not a newcomer to sustainability but has been investing in the future of the next generation since the 1970s. The business has been transforming bus and truck tyres from an environmental landfill hazard to a usable and sustainable product for decades. This commitment has enabled a wealth of innovation over the years and the opportunity to revolutionise the surfacing industry with green credentials at the very heart. The business has remained a market leader for over five decades, focusing on building up competitive advantage without sacrificing safety, quality or the commitment to the environment.

Today, Playtop provides a prime example of how green businesses can not only produce exceptional products but also support the future of children's play.

About Playtop
Playtop is a World leading supplier of sustainable, environmentally friendly, innovative and high-quality rubber surfaces for play and recreational spaces. For more than 40 years, Playtop has been transforming truck and bus tyres from an environmental landfill hazard into usable, sustainable and durable surfacing products.

Playtop is committed to being the surfacing industry's green leader. Through the development of new technologies and innovative processes, incorporate recycled rubber into our great variety of surfacing systems, removing these from the waste stream and prolonging their life cycle.

Playtop Licensing process almost 20,000 tonnes of REACH-compliant end-of-life bus and truck tyres. The clean rubber from this process is used as the base layer for Playtop's high-quality playground and recreational systems. Meanwhile, all steel is separated and given new life as reinforcement fibres in industrial concrete flooring or smelted to produce cast iron products such as road manhole covers.

All tyres processed in our plant are 100% recycled and reused.

Playtop reinforces its environmental commitment through our close partnership with Nike. Here, Playtop incorporates used and ground-up sports shoes and incorporates them in our great variety of surfaces – a flooring product that when blended with Playtop EPDM recycled rubber, will give our extremely durable surfaces an attractive and speckled look. We call this unique product, Playtop with Nike Grind.

Through Playtop with Nike Grind, we not only support Nike in their mission to give new life to waste material and to work towards a zero-waste future, but we also are determined to spread global awareness of the importance of recycling and waste reduction to both public administrators and educational entities. We believe that this is best done best by leading by example.

We join our global partner Nike in a vision of a zero-waste future, but in fact, the true environmentalists are all those customers around the world whom every day choose to use Playtop recycled rubber flooring products as their preferred surfacing solution.

Company Quote
Playtop celebrates being different. In a complex and ever-changing world, we strive to be proactive, responsible and conscious-minded in our business. We thrive on the ability to inspire the world around us, just like it inspires us to truly make a difference.

As a global team, we bring safe, sustainable, innovative and durable play and leisure surfaces to every demographic across the world and we strive to always inspire and embrace uniqueness in both products and people.

For any media enquiries please contact Gary Elliott at Iconic Digital – 020 7100 0726.

For all other enquiries please contact Playtop at https://playtop.com/contact-us

For more information about Playtop services, please go to https://www.playtop.com

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm